Winners and Finalists
On three occasions has a team reached the final of the competition in successive seasons. The first team to do so was Ayr United, reaching the final twice in the first two years of the competition (1990 and 1991). Hamilton Academical did the same not long after (1991, 1992) and Airdrieonians (2000, 2001). Hamilton Academical and Airdrieonians remain the only two teams to have successfully defended their titles. However on some occasions the eventual winner of the Scottish Challenge Cup has been unable to defend their title due to also winning the Scottish First Division in the same season and being promoted to the Scottish Premier League, teams of which are ineligible to compete in the tournament. This has happened to Falkirk (1993, 2004), Inverness Caledonian Thistle (2003) and St. Mirren (2005).
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“The two real political parties in America are the Winners and the Losers. The people don’t acknowledge this. They claim membership in two imaginary parties, the Republicans and the Democrats, instead.”
—Kurt Vonnegut, Jr. (b. 1922)